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D. TARBH BALING MAGHINB.

Patented Ieb. 5,1884.

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D. TARR.

BALING MACHINE.

N0. 292,s72 Patented Feb. 5; 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL TAR-R, OF WELLSVILLE, OHIO.

'BAILING-MACIHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,872, dated February5, 1884, Application filed June 7,1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL TARR, a citizen of the United States,residing in lVellsville, in the county of Oolumbiana and State of Ohio,have invented a new and useful Baling- Machine, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in rear end of the box is adropping door, I,

hinged below. The bottom of the box is made of five or more strips,lengthwise of the box, leaving a space of about one and one-half inchbetween each of the strips, said strips and open spaces being shown inFig. 1. The front end of the box is made with an opening the whole widthof the front, about three inches wide and about a foot from the bottomof the box. In front ,of the box is attached a frame, J, to support adouble wheel and axle power. Immediately in front of and fitted in theframe of the box is a roller, H. At the end of axle F is a wheel orpulley, in which is a deep groove, and also attached to the same end ofthe axle is a crank, so that the machine can be operated by hand or byhorse or steam power. Three or more straps or ropes, e, are fastened inthe frame of the box at the front in the bottom at In, one of the ropesor straps fastened at the front end of each of the open spaces leftbetween the strips of which the bottom of the box is made. From thencethey extend back along the said open spaces, and up over the rear end ofthe box, and so left while the box is being filled with the material tobe baled. When the box is filled or that amount put in it desired forone bale, the loose ends of the ropes are brought forward and over thestraw or hay, down through the open spaceleft in thefront of the box,under the roller H, as is shown by the broken line m in Fig. 2, then up,as is shown by e in Fig. 2, and fastened to axle E. The

wheel or crank attached to axle F is then turned, and the cog-wheel D,working in cogwheel 0, turns axle E, drawing the ropes e e, which rollthe hay forward and into a round bale, as represented in Fig. 2, by ropee, inside the broken edgesof the side of the box.

The twine or wire with which the bale is bound is kept under thebox-three or more balls. One end of the twine is passed up through thebottom of the box before any hay or straw is put in, as represented by iin Fig. 2, then forward along the bottom and up over the front of thebox, and there fastened until the bale is in the form represented inFig.2. They are then bound around the bundle. The

axles are then reversed, and the ropes or straps removed from aroundthebale. The door at the rear end of the box is then dropped down, and thebale removed. A ratchetyn, is fastened on the frame to work in cogs ofwheel 0, to hold the power while the twine or wire is being fastened.

I am aware that patents have been granted on baling-machines whose poweris applied by wheel and axle, but not in manner and substance the sameas mine. In my machine the .power is applied at one end of the box,drawing the hay or straw by direct application of the ropes or straps ee e to the material baled, rolling and pressing it at the same time intoa compact round bale of the solidity desired.

What I claim, and desire to. secure by Letters Patent, is-

In baling-machines, a box, A, in the front end and at the bottom ofwhich are attached, as described and shown, the end of ropes or straps ee e, from where the ropes or straps extend back along the bottom of thebox, up over the rear end of the box, then, when the box is filled withthe material to be baled, to be brought forward and over the materialbaled down through the opening described in the front end of the box,under the roller H, then up and attached to the axle, to be used asdescribed and shown.

DANIEL I TARR.

\Vitnesses:

I. M. SMITH, A. G. $MI H.

